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2005/08/18

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Sports Features:

Physical all that separates Carter from Canucks

VANCOUVER (myTELUS.com) — The only thing separating Anson Carter and the Canucks is a physical. Considering Carter’s reasons for choosing Vancouver over other teams, there might be some wondering if the 31-year-old right winger shouldn’t also have his head examined...Full Story

Japanese goalie hopes to someday make the Kings

TOKYO (AP) - Yutaka Fukufuji knows it's a long, hard road to the NHL but that's a trip the Japanese goalie is prepared to take even if it means riding the buses in hockey's backwaters for a few more years... Full Story

AKRON, Ohio (AP) - Tiger Woods only needed three players to make bogey on the final hole of the PGA Championship to get into a playoff, and it's a good thing that didn't happen...Full Story

CBC strike means some sports programming going elsewhere

TORONTO (CP) - A plan by CBC-TV to carry this Saturday's Toronto-at-Edmonton CFL game without play-by-play commentary has been nixed by the league...Full Story

Allmendinger learns lesson from Champ Car crashes

DENVER (AP) - A.J. Allmendinger has spent a good chunk of his young career looking ahead, anxious for the next level, the next race, the next win...Full Story

Rafael Palmeiro anxious to tell his side of steroid story

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Rafael Palmeiro believes he "soon" will be able to explain himself and tell people why he tested positive for steroids...Full Story

2007 Presidents Cup coming to Royal Montreal

MONTREAL (CP) - One of the worst-kept secrets in sport was disclosed Monday - the 2007 Presidents Cup is coming to Royal Montreal Golf Club...Full Story

Canadian deVos breaks ribs in English Championship game

(CP) - Canadian defender Jason deVos is no stranger to pain on the soccer pitch. But deVos' pain threshold reached a new high recently with Ipswich Town...Full Story

Owens returns to training camp a week after getting kicked out

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Terrell Owens ran routes, caught passes and joked around with his Philadelphia Eagles teammates - quite a different T.O. from the one booted out of training camp a week ago... Full Story

Serena pulls out, but Henin-Hardenne's in fine form

TORONTO (CP) - Justine Henin-Hardenne played with her hamstring bandaged, still not 100 per cent healthy...Full Story

News Features:

Gov. gen. designate denies separatist link

OTTAWA (CP) - Governor general designate Michaelle Jean is denying allegations that she supports Quebec separatism, saying she and her husband have never belonged to a political party or the separatist movement...Full Story

National average for regular gas tops $1 per litre

CALGARY (CP) - Canadians on average are paying more than $1 a litre of regular gasoline for the first time ever amid record-high oil prices, but even the shock at the pumps won't likely change fuel-guzzling habits over night...Full Story

Israeli army begins forcible removal of Gaza residents

NEVE DEKALIM, Gaza Strip (AP) - Thousands of Israeli troops dragged sobbing Jewish settlers out of homes, synagogues and even a nursery school Wednesday and hauled them onto buses in a massive evacuation, fulfilling Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's promise to withdraw from the Gaza Strip after a 38-year occupation...Full Story

Taber school killer back in police custody

TORONTO (CP) - The troubled young architect of a deadly high school shooting in 1999 was taken back into custody Tuesday, plucked from a downtown street just one day after he walked away from a local halfway house. ..Full Story

Paul Coffin, convicted of sponsorship fraud, makes restitution

MONTREAL (CP) - Paul Coffin, the first person charged in the sponsorship scandal, said Tuesday he has taken a mortgage on his house, borrowed from friends and cashed in an RRSP to repay the federal government $1 million...Full Story

Coroners focus on unidentified bodies from Cypriot crash

ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Families on Wednesday began burying victims of the Cypriot plane crash, which killed 121 people, as coroners turned their attention to the 92 bodies that remain unidentified...Full Story

More than 325,000 pilgrims join World Youth Day celebrations

COLOGNE, Germany (AP) - Singing, flag-waving pilgrims filled the streets and packed trams and buses as more than 325,000 people from 184 countries gathered Wednesday for the Roman Catholic Church's 20th World Youth Day...Full Story

U.S. customers 'being set up,' says B.C. pot activist

VANCOUVER, B.C. (CP) - B.C. pot activist Marc Emery is warning his marijuana seed customers their orders may have been intercepted by U.S. justice officials...Full Story

Contact between sexes banned? Saudis find way to flirt

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - The restaurant, like all Riyadh eateries, has taken precautions to prevent its male and female diners from seeing or contacting each other...Full Story

Nurse recalls Times Square kiss by sailor 60 years later

NEW YORK (AP) - A kiss is just a kiss - but not this kiss...Full Story

Bulgarian archeologists uncover golden treasure

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) - Archeologists working a dig in central Bulgaria have unearthed some 15,000 miniature rings and other gold ornaments that date to the end of the third millennium BC - a find they say matches the famous treasure of Troy, scholars announced Wednesday...Full Story